I dont know why, may be an issue with open world mechanics, but the replays in forza 7 are so nice, if you let it be, the angles and the cameras change very good, but in Horizon, ando now in Horizon 4, I have the same issue… So nice cars and beautiful places but you need to manually change the cameras and they feel so artificial… It will be awesome if theres an option like an action camera or something that change the camera so It appears to be a broadcast or something… and therefore the ability to load or save the replay…
May be is a bad idea, I cant stop playing this awesome game, and with a very good action replay camera, there will be more time consuming things to do…
In FM7, the track layout never change. There is not editor to change it. Thats why their replay system work better.
In FH4, their is too much modification (blueprint) that track may have, and if it were like FM7, blueprint wouldnt even have replay.
The way they make it for fh4, everyone can have a replay on any track…
I don’t think replay in Horizon has changed since FH1 … right? Way too many years. Technology has improved way too much for there to be no progress. It’s still so bad because it hasn’t been a priority.
gran turismo 2 had a better replay system going. Horizon is great but the replay really does stink. I can’t find one decent angle and they just look bad. Usually use pan across but none of them work well.
Maybe they can add some cameras to roadlights and use them. Or give cam control to us and we can make our own replay videos. Adding cameras and editing angles etc.
If they can do proper replays (i.e. action cam) in GTA V’s open world surely T10 can figure this out. In fact, having a live action cam now that I think about it would be a really cool feature in FH. It’s the biggest thing missing from what is otherwise an awesome game/series.
Yeah this is always a disappointment for me. I love saving replays in FM7 to upload but Horizon is just so blah. I have this beautiful vid of doing a drift pass right in the hairpin at Long Beach in a 77 V8 Vantage I’m pretty proud of that I show it off any chance I can.
I have always thought that it would be nice to have the drone tied to the car used for replays. And then allow in rewind, a rewind for purpose of making a replay clip. Even if rewind disabled so goes automatically into clip mode.
I would love to see a ‘free drone’ option in horizon 4 similar to the one found in fortnite. We could pause the replay and position the camera where we want it and follow the car how we want. Similar to the fm7 ‘broadcast’ of fixed cameras we could make our own fixed cameras?
Just a thought and couldn’t be too difficult to implement
Actually, replays are not that exciting in FM7 either. I’ve done a little reserach and discovered that they haven’t changed much since FM2.
Plus, I don’t expect to see any major replay improvements in Horizon due to the open world they must render. I mean, they could take shortcuts and whatnot, but I don’t know. I’d much rather they improve replays in FM7 to highlight the car’s bodyroll and movement a bit better, give a better sense of speed and movement. They just get repetitive really fast. GTS, DR 1 and 2 and PCARS2 have excellent race replays that you could just watch for hours.